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European regulators have approved the delivery of Medtronic‘s CoreValve System using a new direct aortic approach in patients with severe aortic stenosis. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a less-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for aortic valve replacement, but some patients are unsuited for the procedure because they have small vessels. The newly CE Marked [...]
This year began with a breast implant scandal. This one has brought back memories of the one early in my private practice. The current one involves the PIP-branded breast implants produced by the French company Poly Implant Prothese and rebranded by the Dutch company Rofil as Rofil M-implants breast implants. The first one involved silicone implants made by American companies including Dow Corning who no longer makes breast implants. The picture of 3 implants includes: top -- an old McGhan double lumen (silicone gel implant surrounded by a saline implant); bottom left – Dow Corning textured silicone implant; and bottom right – Dow Corning smooth silicone implant. Dow Corning has not made breast implants since approximately 1992.
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Although it’s trying to keep quiet about its product, a medical device startup developing a new treatment for obesity revealed this week it’s in the middle of raising $5.5 million. According to a recently filed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission document, Vibrynt Inc. has raised half of a $5.5 million offering from five investors. Vibrynt’s [...]
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BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Officials in Bangor have unveiled a plan that could help revitalize one of the city's rougher sections.
AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - Thursday democratic leadership told the governor to move a television his staff placed outside of his office at the state house, inside his office. Claiming he was being censored, LePage said he's moving his office out of the state house.
(NEWS CENTER) - There has been a very misleading status message floating around Facebook for a number of weeks about graph search, and it's false.
GLENBURN, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- It has been a difficult few weeks for the family of Nichole Cable, the missing teen from Glenburn whose body was found by the Maine Warden Service Monday night. But the community is rallying around those closest to Nichole and organizing events to help the family in their time of need.
AUBURN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Last month, Governor LePage announced the state would be ending its contract with Apple, giving Maine students Hewlett Packard laptops instead.
KITTERY, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- It was one year ago that fire broke out aboard the USS Miami, a nuclear powered submarine docked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Cooler late today.Wet off and on all day!
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Two months after rejecting two bids for a new ferry service between Nova Scotia and Portland, Maine, provincial officials are renewing efforts to restore ferry service for next year.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Gov. Paul LePage's office says he will veto a bill moving through the Legislature to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals because of an amendment Democrats attached to it that would expand Medicaid.
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